Quotes about regret
regret real hydrogen-bomb
Had we not pursued the hydrogen bomb, there is a very real threat that we would now all be speaking Russian. I have no regrets. Edward Teller
regret thinking why-not
I think we should all live on the precipe of life, as fully and as dangerously as possible. Everyone should make the assumption that they're going through life only once. Tomorrow we die. Why not take chances, extend yourself? How awful it is when a person comes to the end of life full of regret. Edward Albee
regret vices honest
We are more inclined to regret our virtues than our vices; but only the very honest will admit this. Holbrook Jackson
regret want sometimes
I did it to get what I want. Maybe I should regret that, but I can’t. Sometimes you do the bad thing and hope for the good result. Holly Black
regret night trouble
No trouble ever got fixed late at night," he said. "Midnight is for regrets. Holly Black
regret thousand ready
A thousand times I was ready to regret and take back my rash statement - yet it had been the truth. Hermann Hesse
regret matter today
If I'm sincere today, what does it matter if I regret it tomorrow? Jose Saramago
regret past ought
The past will not tell us what we ought to do, but... what we ought to avoid. Jose Ortega y Gasset
regret risk too-late
there are risks you'll take for yourself because you know that if your plan goes wrong, it'll be too late for regrets. but if you risk the lives of others and fail, you'll have a lifetime to regret it. Kelley Armstrong
regret thinking should-have
J’aurais dû être plus gentille—I should have been more kind. That is something a person will never regret. You will never say to yourself when you are old, Ah, I wish I was not good to that person. You will never think that. Khaled Hosseini
regret children justification
Some of our children are our justifications and some are but our regrets Khalil Gibran
regret heart compassion
The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love Khalil Gibran
regret light darkness
Yet you shall not deplore having known blindness, nor regret having been deaf. For in that day you shall know the hidden purposes in all things. And you shall bless darkness as you would bless light. Khalil Gibran
regret i-regret
I regret how much I believed in the future. Jonathan Safran Foer
regret mistake made
The mistakes I've made are dead to me. But I can't take back the things I never did. Jonathan Safran Foer
regret i-regret
I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live. Jonathan Safran Foer
regret ignorance no-regrets
The only true conquests-those that awaken no regrets- are those obtained over our ignorance. Napoleon Bonaparte
regret good-times having-a-good-time
Obviously, in my twenties, a lot of downtime was spent having a good time, which I don't regret; that was what I needed to do to get some things out of my system. Luke Grimes
regret people done
What haunted people even, perhaps especially, on their deathbed? What chased them, tortured them and brought some of them to their knees? And [he] thought he had the answer. Regret. Regret for things said, things done, and things not done. Regret for the people they might have been. And failed to be. Louise Penny
regret eye kissing
So bright the tear in Beauty's eye, Love half regrets to kiss it dry. Lord Byron
regret borders form
I love forms beyond my own, and regret the borders between us Loren Eiseley
regret medicine privileged
I dont have any regrets. I consider myself really privileged to belong to medicine and do what I do. I would do it all again. Magdi Yacoub
regret thinking mirrors
Most people who are on the road are pretty damaged. It's an escapist's life. It's not a life that forces you to look in the mirror at where you're at and what you're doing. It's one where you leave the mirror behind. I think that appeals to something in all of us. On the open road, all of your regrets are out the window. Gavin Rossdale
regret challenges trying
I dont regret anything. I am proud to try a challenge even if I do not exceed. Gael Monfils
regret might employment
it is a lean employment of time to brood on what might have happened along some other turning. Freya Stark
regret sadness important
While it is important to trash the governor, it should be done in the context of regret, sadness and balance. Frank Luntz
regret space never-regret
Space we can recover; time never. Napoleon Bonaparte
regret next imperfect
It is precisely from the regret left by the imperfect work that the next one can be born. Odilon Redon
regret guilt emotion
Do not have regrets. Guilt is a wasted emotion. Norman Reedus
regret moments
I don't know how you can look back with regret if you're at a moment when everything seems fine. Norman Lear
regret mistake thinking
I think I made essential a mistake in staying in movies, because I - but it's a mistake I can't regret, because it's like saying, 'I shouldn't have stayed married to that woman, but I did because I love her.' Orson Welles
regret fate opportunity
But to deny fate is arrogance, to declare that we are the sole shapers of our existence is madness;if you deny fate life becomes the series of missed opportunities, a regret for what never was and could have been, a remorse of what was not done and could have been done, and the present is wasted, twisted into another missed oppurtunity. Oriana Fallaci
regret done proud
I have no regrets at all. I have done quite well for myself. I didn't have a conventional face, but I have done well, and I am proud of it. Om Puri